William percy rose



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLIAM PERCY ROSE, OF DUBLIN, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR TO ROBERT A. MIL- LER, RICHARD H. MCCAIN, GEORGE A. CHILTON, AND IVILLIAM II. NEIL,

ALL OF SAME PLACE.

TOBACCO SUBSTITUTE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 440,506, dated November 11, 1890.

Application filed May 7, 1890. Serial No. 350,926. (No specimens.)

T0 aZZ whom it 12mg concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM PERCY ROSE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dublin, in the county of Erath and State of Texas, have invented new and useful Improvements in a Tobacco Substit-ute,of which the following is a specification,

This invention relates to an improved tobacco substitute adapted to remove the cravin g for tobacco experienced by those who have long been addicted to its use.

The invention consists in a compound of the following-named ingredients in about the proportions stated.

I take powdered gentian root and powdered extract of licorice, of each twenty-eight parts; powdered prickly-ash bark and powdered Sassafras bark, of each five and one-quarter parts, and a sufficient quantity of the alcoholic extract of gentian to make a mass of such consistency as will enable the compound to be pressed into tablet form. Each tablet may be two and one-half inches long, one and one-half inch wide, and one-half inch thick, or of any other convenient or desirable size. The tablet is to be used in the same manner as ordinary plug tobacco, and as the ingredients are harmless a small quantity of the juice may be safely swallowed.

In a powdered form the compound may be used for sinokin g and as asubstitut-e for snuff.

The tonic and alterative qualities of the ingredients employed in this improved tobacco substitute have a beneficial eifect.

What I claim as my invention is- The herein described tobacco substitute, compounded of gentian, licorice, prickly-ash bark, and Sassafras, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

IVILLIAM PERCY ROSE.

Witnesses:

J. T. HARRIS,

W. R. Nonwoon. 

